Being an account of his early life, more particularly his voyages as an employee of the Hudsons Bay Company between the years 1920 and 1930. At the age of eighteen, after serving overseas with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, Cecil Bradbury went to work for the Hudsons Bay Company, and spent the next ten years in the high Canadian Arctic. This book is a brief history of that period. It tells an interesting story of how young men were taught the trade; how they established and supplied trading posts; how they explored on behalf of the company and how they interacted with one-another. Included is Bradbury's account, complete with his diary entries, of the unsuccessful attempt of the Fort James to navigate the Northwest Passage.
Now 94 years of age, Cecil Bradbury is still an interesting, and interested, individual. After his tour of duty with the Hudsons Bay Company, he settled down in Newfoundland, and was one of the early employees with the Bowater organization in Corner Brook, moving to Deer Lake and becoming its first Town Manager. He helped establish Deer Lake's first town council, and then returned to the Bowater Power Company as assistant secretary, responsible to the secretary of the company, a position he held until his retirement in 1966.
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